Negro Fort
Negro Fort was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida. It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via its southwest border, by means of which they could "free all these Southern Countries [states] from the Yoke of the Americans". Built on a militarily significant site overlooking the Apalachicola River, it was the largest structure between St. Augustine and Pensacola. Trading posts of Panton, Leslie and Company and then John Forbes and Company, loyalists hostile to the United States, had existed since the late eighteenth century there and at the San Marcos fort, serving local Native Americans and fugitive slaves. The latter, having been enslaved on plantations in
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Negro Fort
Negro Fort was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida. It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via its southwest border, by means of which they could "free all these Southern Countries [states] from the Yoke of the Americans". Built on a militarily significant site overlooking the Apalachicola River, it was the largest structure between St. Augustine and Pensacola. Trading posts of Panton, Leslie and Company and then John Forbes and Company, loyalists hostile to the United States, had existed since the late eighteenth century there and at the San Marcos fort, serving local Native Americans and fugitive slaves. The latter, having been enslaved on plantations in
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Negro Fort was a short-lived f ...... hero to all but abolitionists.
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Fugitive slaves
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1816-07-27
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The fugitive slave and Choctaw casualties include women and children.
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* All captured slaves forced back intoslavery
* Negro Fort destroyed
United States-Creek victory
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Map of Fort Gadsden, inside the breastwork that surrounded the original Negro Fort.
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Andrew Jackson
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Edmund Gaines
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Garçon
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Battle of Negro Fort
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1816-07-27
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The fugitive slave and Choctaw casualties include women and children.
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the Seminole Wars
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United States-Creek victory
* ...... laves forced back into slavery
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Negro Fort was a short-lived f ...... en enslaved on plantations in
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Negro Fort
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Battle of Negro Fort
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